Review – a weekend in Munster
Our Durban D-VA has been gallivanting down the luscious mango tree lined South Coast of Kwazulu / Natal – she popped into the small town of “Munster” to see what was on offer… she found a lot of chill time which sounds just like what we need… D-VA stayed at Casa Caroline – an affordable no-frills place to lay your weary body – here’s her take: “For those planning a holiday… to the Eastern Cape or the old Transkei and would like to break your journey between Durban and your destination; or for Durbanites wanting to escape the routine of the same-old same-old beaches and streets of your city, Munster is a very good option. Situated between Margate and the Wild Coast Sun, near the border of KZN and the Eastern Cape, it is something of a well-kept secret. Casa Caroline, Munster, is a new self-catering accommodation option that allows you to enjoy all that the area has to offer. So – you can enjoy the Wild Coast Sun, if that’s your thing, or just for the experience of it, without the expense of staying there; and you can enjoy the restaurants and nightlife of Margate and Ramsgate, minus the holiday crowds. Caroline Lynch has converted two wings of her house into self -catering holiday flatlets, each able to sleep four. Cottage One, where we stayed, has a partial sea view, tiled floors, and is simply but comfortably decorated – a no-frills, no-fuss pad only 5-minutes walk to the beach. Munster beach takes you back to your childhood with seashells galore, rockpools to explore, a lagoon and even a rusty piece of shipwreck for those “isn’t-South-Africa-beautiful” photo opportunities. During our visit, we cycled the maze-like, overgrown suburb; ate in front of a massive “Discovery-Channel” fish tank at the Wild Coast Sun; floated like otters in the sea; and read magazines in the sun on the patio of the cottage. Well worth a break to somewhere obscure but simple and laid-back. CASA CAROLINE MUNSTER Rates: Rates from R300 – R500 depending on season. Although bath towels are provided per person, you need to bring your own beach towels. Cooking facilities are basic (gas, microwave, no oven) but the communal braai area will satisfy most South African holiday makers. Contact: Caroline Lynch Cell: 072 478 9364 Tel: 039 319 1153 EMail Caroline DISTANCE TO MUNSTER: 9km north of Port Edward 157km south of Durban 732km from Johannesburg...
COMPETITION! Win tickets to Summer Storm – NOW!
We got a set of DOUBLE TICKETS to give away to the HOT HOT HOT 5fm Summer Storm tour tomorrow night at the Groove Bar – sounds really awesome. Simply EMAIL the Editorista on editor@represent.co.za with the answer to the following: Name three DJ’s that will be performing at the Joburg Summer Storm… Competition ends midnight on the 1 Dec.NG The 5FM Smirnoff Summer Storm Tour will be blazing through Johannesburg, Plettenberg Bay, Durban and Cape Town this December. Get your summer party gear in shape to face the freshest local sounds at some of SA’s hottest clubs. Groove Bar in Midrand, Johannesburg on Friday, 2 December, gets the storm brewing with a Roger Goode sundowner set from 6pm and a live broadcast of The Nicole Fox Show (7-10pm). The broadcast will also include exclusive sets from 115 DJs Octave, Kid Fonque, along with Roger Goode and others plus a live performance by Pro Kid. Following Nicole’s show, 4 dance floors open to engulf your senses in a tornado of lightning and sound. Roger Goode, Craig de Sousa, Ryan Dent, Craig Massiv, G-Force, Miss Red, Tim White, Mbuso and Euphonik are just some of the DJs who will ensure your senses are blasted into a storm. Soul Candi and House Afrika are hosting their own individual areas, along with Nicole’s Foxy 5-floor – featuring only female mixing talent. Are you ready for the storm? Tickets for Johannesburg are available via Computicket for R90; R100 at the door (from 5pm on 2 December). Bikini Bar in Plettenberg Bay is hosting The Goode Doctor’s sundowners and Nicole Fox’s broadcast on Saturday, 10 December. The party storm moves to Club VIP after Nicole’s show at 10pm. Thursday, 15 December (the next day is a public holiday) sees Roger Goode standing in for Nicole 7-10pm from Tilt in Durban. The 5FM Smirnoff Summer Storm Tour concludes in Cape Town at Miam Miam on Thursday, 22 December. Roger Goode is again delivering the sundowner-set as part of The Nicole Fox Show (7-10pm). Go to www.5fm.co.za for more info. More details on Plettenberg Bay, Durban and Cape Town still to be confirmed. These 3 cities will feature live performances by Flash Republic (feat Tamara Dey) as well as various other 5FM personalities. Entry into the events are exclusively for people over the age of...
FREEDOM TOASTER – make sure you get your slice
Thanks as always to one of our most loyal and on the mark Representers ‘Stoffel’ for his juicy bits that he sends us on nearly a daily basis… Check out this brilliant initiative, from the generous Shuttleworth Foundation – The FREEDOM TOASTER project – they’re making open source software available to all South Africans through their innov… ative FREEDOM TOASTERS – ‘conveniently located, self-contained ‘Bring ‘n Burn’ facilities that provide free OPEN SOURCE software downloads to anyone that feels like a piece of toast… All you have to do is insert your blank disks and make copies of the free software so you can empower yourself and your computer without spending a fortune on the big boy software like Windows and Apple whose tight grip on the market is a hard one to negotiate. Click here to go to the site. Here’s the basics: What is the Freedom Toaster The Freedom Toaster is a conveniently located, self-contained ‘Bring ‘n Burn’ facility, where users bring their own blank discs and make copies of the open source software they require. What is the Freedom ToasterThe Freedom Toaster is a conveniently located, self-contained ‘Bring ‘n Burn’ facility, where users bring their own blank discs and make copies of the open source software they require.But why do we need this? The Freedom Toaster project began as a means of overcoming the difficulty in obtaining Linux and Open Source software due to the restrictive telecommunications environment in South Africa, where the easy downloading of large pieces of software is just not possible....
AMAZON.com looking for Sou’ Africans to join the start up
At last – Amazon.com has ventured to the land of milk and money… our economy is Boom Boom Booming and any clever brand should want to be a part of it! They’re opening a ‘software development’ centre – sounds interesting! We wish them all the best of luck and welcome them to Mzantsi! They’re looking for potential EMPLOYEES to be a part of the start-up – now this is a company… that you REALLY want to work for – check it out: “Amazon.com is delighted to announce that our new software development centre in South Africa is now fully operational. The Centre offers a unique opportunity to be a part of a rather unusual start-up — one which will serve tens of millions of active customer accounts around the world. We are now looking for outstanding individuals across a number of different areas of expertise to join the start-up team. “ GET TO IT!!!...
A guide to South Africa’s 12th language – GELEZA!!
Did you know that Black Label beer is also known as 10111? Or that the latest BMW 330i BMW is known as “half past three”? Lebo Motshegoa, one of the visionary mfowethu’s behind Soweto Rocks, gives us another treasure all in the name of getting to understand each other better. In this case it’s an opportunity to really get into TOWNSHIP TALK and learn some street-taal. Get it from a book…store near you! For all those behind the times on Scamto, South Africa’s popular language of the streets, well here’s Township Talk Dictionary, a guide to South Africa’s 12th language, scamto. Geleza this dictionary and begin to frostun the language, the culture and the people of South Africa. Soon you’ll become a chizboy probably driving a G-string and sipping on Jesus & his Brothers, that’s J&B. Learn more with this Dictionary, compiled by Lebo Motshegoa, who compiled the first ever township glossary, titled Scamto Dictionary that won the much-coveted Loerie Awards in 2003 & 2004. The dictionary explores amongst other things, the history behind Township lingo. For example, the language emanated in Sophiatown in the 50 & 60s& it was known as Tsotsi Taal and was developed to ensure privacy between the boys and their ‘matharas’… Then the legacy continued and in the late 70s to 80s when “Mapantsula” came into the picture. Mapantsula were notorious for their rough nature and behavior… This dictionary tells how they wore expensive clothing and had expensive taste. Their girlfriends were known as Mshozas… The political uprisings of 1976 brought the realization for unity and common purpose in South Africa. The categorization of people based on their taste; company and patronage became a thing of the past… There was one common goal for all, and that was UNITY and the struggle for FREEDOM. Hence, another form of communication was born: Township lingo, fusing all South African languages into one. So when you do get a copy of the Township Talk Dictionary, expect to see words like regte, pluck, stompie, cherry, dom kop, chizboy, four five and many others that are spoken words in South African townships. The Township Talk Dictionary does not only include the A-Z of township lingo, it has included the street nicknames of di transie (cars), dice, street jargon for nyuku (money), words and phrases that give insight into urban black South Africans. No wonder it’s tag line is, the language – the culture – the people. This dictionary is truly hip to the...
01/09 – 04/09 :: UNYAZI – our 1st electro music festival
UNYAZI Festival of electronic music and sonic arts kicks off next week on the 1 – 4 September at WITS in Johananesburg with huge international guests and lots of locals too… The computer, the sampler, and the turntable. The new sound technologies embraced by the post-rave generation have linked them into a network of experimental and unconventional musicians going back to th…e electroacoustic pioneers of the 1960s. Over the last decade this explosion of creative collaboration between several generations of electronic musicians and sonic artists has been celebrated in a growing number of international events, such as the Sonar Festival in Barcelona and the Phonotaktik in Vienna. Now electronic music is coming to Johannesburg with the UNYAZI festival. NewMusicSA, the South African Section of the International Society for Contemporary Music, is proud to present UNYAZI – the first festival of electronic music and sonic arts in Africa. Over four days in September, top international musicians, teachers, and artists will be featured together with African musicians who are working in this field. Under the curatorship of South African composer Dimitri Voudouris, the festival will run from 1 – 4 September in Johannesburg at venues on the Wits University campus in Braamfontein, in association with the Digital Arts and Music Divisions of the Wits School of Arts. Funded principally by the National Arts Council of South Africa, the festival will feature the extraordinary range and variety of electronic musics from Africa and the rest of the world. UNYAZI will consist of -a symposium with presenters from Europe, the Americas and Africa, – workshops and live performances throughout each day of the Festival by some of the most well-known names in the sonic arts both internationally and nationally, from tape music to kwaito and everything in between. Come and experience legendary names such as the Egyptian Halim El-Dabh and American pioneer Pauline Oliveros in electrifying performances and workshops. A wealth of other composers and performers will come from Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Cyprus, Egypt, Mexico, Norway, Spain, Sweden,Zimbabwe and the USA – Rodrigo Sigal, Lukas Ligeti, Blake Tyson,Yannis Kyriakides, Matthew Ostrowski, Maxime Rioux, George Lewis , Luc Houtkamp+POW,Francisco Lopez,Sandra Ndebele,My Kingdom For A Lullabuy,Schnee Local electronic musicians will not be neglected. At Unyazi you can also catch performances by artists and composers from all over South Africa: Warrick Sony,Brendon Bussy,Louis Moholo,James Webb (Cape Town), Theo Herbst and the KEMUS Ensemble (Stellenbosch), Sazi Dlamini, Jýrgen Brýuninger + Sazi Dlamini and Zim Ngqwana (Durban), and Carlo Mombelli, Joýo Orecchia, Skwatta Kamp, Pops Mohammed, Rheza Khota, James Sey, Skid, Chris Wood and Dimitri Voudouris (Johannesburg). Workshops will be conducted by Blake Tyson , Pauline Oliveros,...
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